Hi everyone, I feel like I need to express my agreement with DrSlony, but let me first thank you for the great work on geeqie. For debian users such as me, there is nothing to worry about due to the quick integration of updates into the debian repos. Still for a user or potential contributer that heard about geeqie and is looking for information on it, the current situation does not suggest an active project. There are two factors: Firstly, many pages still point to sourceforge. Secondly if someone found out that geeqie.org is the real project homepage, on the first glance it looks abandoned. About the first part: Googles first hit is sourceforge (nothing easy to do about that), second hit (for me being German-speaking) is an ubuntuusers.de article with links pointing to sourceforge (I corrected this, hopefully it will remain) and then a wikipedia article containing correct links. What is in my opinion really problematic is the content of geeqie.org: The front page is old and all links except Download, Git Source and Mailingslists point to the sourceforge frontpage of geeqie. As a user the first links I will look at are certainly those pointing to sourceforge. This shows also in the amount of downloads of geeqie from sourceforge and the occasionally used sourceforge bugtracker. So my proposition is to update the front page and point the links to some placeholder saying something like: Sorry, nobody currently maintains the webpage, but the code is regularly updated. Feel free to contact the user mailing list for questions or devel mailing list if you are interested in helping with the documentation or code. I just feel like anything is better than a link to sourceforge. I will gladly propose something for the latter part, but it will really be restricted to content, as I am a novice to both open-source projects and "webdesgin". If you agree with the above and want me to create something, please tell me and I will come up with something (when time permits).
Cheers, Simon On 07/03/16 10:55, Klaus Ethgen wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA512 > > Hi folks, > > Am Mo den 7. Mär 2016 um 2:15 schrieb DrSlony: >> Geeqie has been my favorite image viewer for a long time, but I'm >> troubled by the status of the project. >> >> First there is the multiple dead websites issue. There is >> http://www.geeqie.org/ >> and there is also >> http://geeqie.sourceforge.net/ >> These are almost identical, and both appear to be quite dead. For >> instance, the front page of both reads: >> "Geeqie is currently short before releasing stable release 1.0" > Well, the later is dead as all that are able to edit it, are not active > or even reachable anymore. > > www.geeqie.org is current but nobody cares about doing stuff here. My > priority for updating website is much lower than fixing bugs. > >> Then there is the status of the project itself. The project looks dead, >> and most people think it is. When one looks for the code, one ends up at >> this very slow to load page >> https://sourceforge.net/p/geeqie/git/commit_browser > That repository is not used anymore. Sourceforge is a untrusted and evil > hoster that modifies downloads. So do not trust them. > > Please look at http://www.geeqie.org/ for the current one. > (http://geeqie.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=geeqie.git) > >> But if, for some reason, one keeps digging, one might end up here >> http://www.geeqie.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=geeqie.git > Well, there is a link on the website. > >> Clearly still alive. But it lacks any way of getting in contact with >> you. > What about this mailinglist? Well, it is still on sourceforge as we > don't have other currently. > > There is even the information in whois if you need my technical > contact. > > The last is to look into the git commits. There are always the full > E-Mail addresses. > >> When I click on the developers, I see their commits, but not way of >> getting in touch. > Use a native git client or click on the commit. > >> I don't know if this email will reach the right people, I really have no >> idea how to get in touch with the active developers, but if I do, I >> propose to help improve this situation. >> >> Are you interested? > Sure. If you find something to improve... Just come up with a git > formated patch or a bundle. > > Am Mo den 7. Mär 2016 um 7:21 schrieb Roger: >> geeqie-1.2-r1 seems to be the latest stable on my distro, > What distribution are you using? They should use more recent version > witch has many bugfixes implemented currently. > > Regards > Klaus > - -- > Klaus Ethgen http://www.ethgen.ch/ > pub 4096R/4E20AF1C 2011-05-16 Klaus Ethgen <kl...@ethgen.ch> > Fingerprint: 85D4 CA42 952C 949B 1753 62B3 79D0 B06F 4E20 AF1C > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1 > > iQGcBAEBCgAGBQJW3VAVAAoJEKZ8CrGAGfas+WcMALMRxlsqi/JcRTAUa+hpni1g > DkkKEp1fJhos+xrY/+mWOb2NLMjxB3versk4o/9noEy/4d7IKS4dcZ8/Uc8YazvC > XY15r2sXd6nZ//xW9YTny1slOwgEJVzZATFvnMCvBMBSbfNoC1gX8r4PKVubArp2 > Zx0gGS33oxTIJgWL4e8HZQM0f9TUaP6DTpCV0LxBYGk2Js6xvabdQBSasqyAm0j9 > EFkTBGHzugisboaLRGW5KPoRNopAABDiov/Au+8Nn+mmyqRz8VHqnH0YIHO5g3+s > OtbC3GNenIxG4J5pAH2oAxS1w/3dTOd4qf+yg3GC++uNzBZcK3/4BjjhZ0cmH8QI > A9EzZIEddwhdhoEQ7LMMpm0PUchnUhcFiXoSXPPcLtnokXwhBvaoQgK7gHHpDz2Q > xO3oDla1JQBMBd/Z2tgzGXA3pVuqQFR+X0VUHexFqq1WgJjSksiJAC1tKRpIzLU2 > 11/LkKLrDUX0y8W9PaxEjrhYDCKY+SOgQHpKW1tPYQ== > =9bdg > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Transform Data into Opportunity. > Accelerate data analysis in your applications with > Intel Data Analytics Acceleration Library. > Click to learn more. > http://makebettercode.com/inteldaal-eval > _______________________________________________ > Geeqie-devel mailing list > Geeqie-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geeqie-devel ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Transform Data into Opportunity. Accelerate data analysis in your applications with Intel Data Analytics Acceleration Library. Click to learn more. http://makebettercode.com/inteldaal-eval _______________________________________________ Geeqie-devel mailing list Geeqie-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geeqie-devel
